pessimistic
pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
Origin of pessimistic
1synonym study For pessimistic
Other words for pessimistic
Other words from pessimistic
- pes·si·mis·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- non·pes·si·mis·tic, adjective
- non·pes·si·mis·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- o·ver·pes·si·mis·tic, adjective
- o·ver·pes·si·mis·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- un·pes·si·mis·tic, adjective
- un·pes·si·mis·ti·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby pessimistic
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use pessimistic in a sentence
Not all of the economists in the survey were as pessimistic as Sinclair.
Even With A Vaccine, The Economy Could Take Many Months To Return To Normal | Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux | August 25, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightFor companies to fall in this lowest tier means that investors are pessimistic about their future sales growth and profitability.
The champ’s big comeback: Why beaten-down value stocks are poised to thrive | Shawn Tully | August 18, 2020 | FortuneCorelogic, the financial data service, has made a baseline forecast that some three million homeowners will fall behind on their mortgage payments—and their pessimistic forecast predicts more than 12 million delinquent borrowers.
Assuming the most pessimistic scenario — that life requires stars to have at least as much metal as the sun — eliminates about two-thirds of the galaxy’s stars.
Self-destructive civilizations may doom our search for alien intelligence | Tom Siegfried | July 6, 2020 | Science NewsThis message will resonate with Americans who are feeling pessimistic due to everything that has unfolded in 2020.
Ecommerce marketing this Independence Day will be tricky: Four must dos | Evelyn Johnson | June 23, 2020 | Search Engine Watch
Are you more pessimistic about the overall public education crisis given this current environment?
“I fall very much on the pessimistic spectrum, in the sense that I get very confused about it,” she says.
Confessions of a Rom-Com Writer: Liz Tuccillo Talks ‘Sex and the City,’ ‘Take Care,’ and More | Kevin Fallon | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut otherwise he was far more pessimistic about the rest of the Deep South.
It satirizes and parodies the romanticised, pessimistic accounts of rural life by writers like Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.
These Female Contemporaries Weren’t Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Louisa Treger | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut at the time I was so pessimistic that the notion of staying and fighting just seemed like an empty gesture.
My brother recovered his old spirit and refused to be discouraged by my pessimistic view of his expedition.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydRaoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThen I received a pessimistic letter from Aunt H—— telling me that lots of wounded were expected and that the war would not cease.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieBut in his most dangerous crisis he had never been restless, apprehensive, pessimistic, as he was at this moment.
With Edged Tools | Henry Seton MerrimanHe was disposed to a critical and sometimes pessimistic examination of his own feelings and of other people's actions.
The Hidden Places | Bertrand W. Sinclair
Browse